During 1928-1938, the approval of the Child Labor Amendment was stopped by an effective campaign to destroy it. These challenges to the act were based on the belief that the federal government went beyond their power to control interstate commerce. Federal protection of children would not obtain passage until the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938. This act was also challenged in the Supreme Court but this time the act won. (“Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916(1916”).